Some of the top deals that have been posted at OzBargain over the past 7 days.

Free Wii Remote Jacket

Thanks to MiCCAS for posting this deal, where Nintendo is offering Wii Remote Jacket for free for Wii owners! From the number of votes I think there must be a lot of Wii owners reading OzBargain. It’s not FREE as in completely free — you still need to an owner of a Nintendo Wii to claim this offer.

Moreover, what is the point of having your latest free Wii remote jacket without the actual games to play with? Big W is currently having a big console game sale for many recent game consoles. $348 for Wii console and $88 for 2 Wii games! Thanks to ih8parties for posting this deal!

As for me? Still in the process trying to get a Wii…

Kingston 1GB 667MHz DDR2 RAM $29.97 from ShoppingSquare

1GB Kingston DDR2 RAM for $29.95 from ShoppingSquare? Even with $10 delivery it is still cheap! Actually I am really surprised to see how cheap memory are, thanks to Microsoft and Windows Vista that helps to drive the demand. It is now quite common for desktop computers to equip with 2GB or 4GB of RAM just to browse the Internet and run the latest FPS. I thought 640kb ought to be enough?!

Thanks to kcyw for posting this deal.

Cheap Flights

Cheap flights have always been popular on OzBargain.

• Gold Coast-Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (via Brisbane) for $99 one way from AirAsia (thanks to ozpete)
• Perth-Melbourne for $49 one way from Jetstar (thanks to John)
• Sydney-Nagoya Japan for $299 one way from Jetstar (thanks to stonedewok)

Now I just need more holidays.

Great Freebies

Quite a few nice freebies have also been posted at OzBargain this week.

• 30 days trial with Quickflix where you can burrow up to 8 DVDs for free (thanks to kcyw)
• $20 free credit to David Jones card (thanks to yousuf)

Freebies, especially free samples, have been a touchy subject at OzBargain recently. Some people like them, but some people don’t. There is always that fine print under every free deal, but on the other hand what can you complain when you pay nothing for it?

It has generated a bit of discussions on OzBargain so I am in the process of separating the freebies from regular deals and coupons. This feature should be available next week — stay tuned.

There is also going to be a change on our weekly competition, after a bit of discussion today. Basically if you submitted a deal hours before 12PM AEST on Thursday, there is little chance your deal can get enough of votes to win the popularity contest. We even have people keeping a list of deals, and will only post them AFTER the draw to maximise the winning chance for the following week.

So for the competition next week, we will change the criteria for the most voted deals. Instead of drawing from the pool of deals posted over the last 7 days, we will use a 2 week running window. We’ll see how it goes.